RenegadeSoul

Well? How is it? by artist? Title? or maybe even album. I go with Artist, it makes it easiest to find a song.

WhoaitsZ

on my stereo i just put them in. my memory of arranged cds is very good.

on the pc i normally do all my mp3s by author alphabeticly.

meanSpleen

PC- Artist, CD
when the computer gets full, burn to cd's however i feel like
Actual music cd's - Just put them on the rack and look for them

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Spungfoo

Physical CD's - no order, I have the ones I listen to ripped to ogg anyway

Pc - by artist, then I use a tag scanner to sort by album, date, category, etc.

SecretMethod70

Actual CD's are just all placed in a rack. I'll find them soon enough when I want to play them.

Music on the computer is sorted:

genre-->artist-->year - album-->track - title

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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

KWSN

Artist -> Release Date.

Meaning, in laymen's terms, that I group by artist, and if I have more than one CD by a given artist, I put that artist's CD's in order of release date.

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sierra2774

By Artist, Alphabetically. Easy to find them.

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snowy

By what's most listened to (mine is a stack one on top of the other CDs) and in my CD case it's alphabetical, but it always ends up getting messed up.

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Grondar

Artist / Album Name / Songs

The Artist folders are the alphabetically arranged.

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Hitchcock

By artist, alphabetically works for me; nice and simple.

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holtmate

By artist...on my PC and with my actual CDs

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BubblegumTeflon

lots of cd's, I arrange them in whatever order they appeared on my computer. Sorting by date is weird but it works for me. . .

Mr. Ash

On the PC, artist. CD wise, randomly. Then I go hunting and digging. Joy.

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onodrim

Computer wise, I go with artist myself. I have one folder for music with a bunch of different artists folders in there. For the ones I only have onesong of, they go in the Misc. folder. ACtualy CDs, radom, but I rarely use those anymore anyway. Pretty simple.

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brokenlies

real CDs - Artist(alphabetically) - Album(chronological order of which they debuted)

Mp3 - seperate folder for the artist, then a seperate folder for each album, then the mp3's are like this: Artist - Album - track number - track name

SaltPork

sort??? what is this "sort" you are speaking of? STOP SWEARING AT ME!!!!!!!!!!

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Troublebot

Alphabetical, according to group name or last name of artist. This is why you find Ben Folds Five in the "B's" and Ben Folds in the "F's".

Once you get to the group of artist, CD's are in chronological order, by release date.

Christ, I need to get a hobby.

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World's King

By style. Then by artist. Then by date of release.


I have OCD.

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fhqwhgads

I sort mine by color, texture, and then according to size.

genka

The 60 CD's of classical music that I recived over the course of two years by mail came with their own racks. All the cd's are themed, numbered, and come with a booklet(built into the cover) that explains the songs. I also got two little binders with all sorts of musical information in them.

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degrawj

alphabetically of course. and then when i have more than one CD of a certain artist or group, i order them in the order they were released. anal? yes, but if you had over 400 CD's you would need a system to find certain CD's too.

vermin

Alphabetically by artist, then by release date, with a special section set aside for comedy/jazz/christmas/oddities, and a random pile for the cd's whose cases are cardboard and don't fit in the racks.

On the computer I use window's media player which can sort them a lot of different ways. Depends on what I want to hear.

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Zotz

My CDs and MP3s are both sorted alphabetically by artist...not a terribly complex nor elaborate system but it seems to work just fine.

oldbob

I try to keep my CDs sorted by artist and then title. And then about twice a year I get tired of searching through the stacks of cds that my girlfriend and I take out the cd player and pile on the shelf, floor, whatever and realphabetize them all.

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SiN

actual music cd's are in cases on a rack, all numbered/labeled with their number in database (use prog called WhereIsIt? for databasing cd's. have separate db's for audio, data, and video).

on computer, mp3's are on their own 80 gig (almost full) in dirs by artist, with subdirs for each album.

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Lebell

Actual cd's are by Genre and the subgrouped by Artist/composer.

That way my classical isn't mixed in my pop/rock or my Jazz, etc.

On the computer, it is strictly by artist and then subgrouped by album if available.

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schmuck

geographically by artists' home country.

Frosstbyte

I sort by the most broad topic categories imaginable. I have two playlists: rock and techno. But rock really means everything from punk/ska to heavy metal to light industrial to alternative to classic rock and techno is kind of what that playlist started has but has since become a category for every random song I find that doesn't fit into rock as well as I'd like it to. Both playlists are around 10 hours I think. Oh well.

mrsandman

I usually let my feet do the sorting. Yep, that's what I like about 8-Tracks...they're so damn durable. They're just scattered around my floorboard. Alphabetical, chronological, genre, it's all rock and roll to me. The most difficult part is tweaking the mp3's and the 8-Tracks...little bit challenging to rip and burn, gigs are low, etc.

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